Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Global Perspectives on Sports and Christianity
1st Edition
Edited
By Afe Adogame, Nick J. Watson, Andrew Parker
February 25, 2020
While the relationship between sport and religion is deeply rooted in history, it continues to play a profound role in shaping modern-day societies. This edited collection provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of this relationship from a global perspective, making a major contribution to the ...
International Safeguards for Children in Sport: Developing and Embedding a Safeguarding Culture
1st Edition
By Daniel Rhind, Frank Owusu-Sekyere
February 25, 2020
Safeguarding should be a central concern for any sports organisation working with children or young people. This significant new study examines the development, implementation and impact of the International Safeguards for Children in Sport; a set of guidelines drawn up by a working group of ...
Rugby Union and Professionalisation: Elite Player Perspectives
1st Edition
By Mike Rayner
February 25, 2020
The game of rugby has changed significantly in the course of its history. In the early part of the 19th century it evolved from a folk game played by the working class to a recreational activity for public schoolboys. From the 1820s rugby represented an opportunity for gentlemen to demonstrate ...
Sporting Capital: Transforming Sports Development Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Nicholas F. Rowe
February 25, 2020
In a world of competing public policy priorities, economic challenges and political uncertainty, sports development organisations and initiatives need to adapt to survive. This book makes the case for 'Sporting Capital' as a new conceptual model of sports participation with the potential to ...
Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities
1st Edition
Edited
By lisahunter
December 06, 2019
Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement cultures. Rooted in a rich precolonial history, surfing has undergone a modern transformation shaped by visual culture, commodification, sportization, ...
Transforming Sport: Knowledges, Practices, Structures
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas F. Carter, Daniel Burdsey, Mark Doidge
December 06, 2019
Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport. This challenging collection of international research is a clear call for enacting the transformation of sport. The contributing authors argue that it is not enough to ...
Football Fans, Activism and Social Change
1st Edition
By Dino Numerato
December 05, 2019
The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport. The first work of its kind, this book explores football fan activism and its impact on contemporary football culture in England, Italy and the Czech Republic. Presenting a comparative study of fan activism in...
Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Medcalf, Chris Mackintosh
December 05, 2019
Researching Difference in Sport and Physical Activity goes beyond the content of introductory research methods texts to provide an insight into the methodological hurdles that are experienced when researching ‘difference’ in Sport and Physical Activity. Contributors reflect upon how the rhetoric ...
Rethinking Olympic Legacy
1st Edition
By Vassil Girginov
December 05, 2019
How do Olympic legacies come about? This book offers an alternative approach to the study of Olympic and mega-sport event legacy, challenging how legacy is conceptualised and practised. It shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the ...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region: Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gyozo Molnar, Sara N. Amin, Yoko Kanemasu
December 05, 2019
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer
1st Edition
By Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi
December 03, 2019
Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology, ...
Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
November 28, 2019
Chinese martial arts is considered by many to symbolise the strength of the Chinese and their pride in their history, and has long been regarded as an important element of Chinese culture and national identity. Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts comprehensively examines the development ...